Bombay Tiger

Set in the 1980s, Bombay Tiger tells the story of Ganguli -mercurial, larger-than-life - who arrives in Bombay with little more than ruthless ambition, and becomes the city's biggest industrialist. A Citizen Kane-like figure - destined to become one of the most memorable protagonists in Indian fiction - Ganguli is emblematic of a changing India, post the era of high socialism, beginning to be transformed by private enterprise. This sweeping novel, poignant and comic by turns, traces his dramatic rise and fall, his loves and losses, and his eventual redemption.